Cause if you don't just do it, then it will never happen

[reallyfled]

The next book that I plan on reading is going to be a book that I buy: Brian Eno's A Year with Swollen Appendices... two parts: his diary from the year 1995 and the "appendices", which feature correspondence, interviews, short stories, and essays that include topics such as ambient music, generative music (see Will Wright and Eno's work with the

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[noright_angles]

That book you were talking about up there...sounds great. You better let me borrow it or something, except I like to buy my books. I love libraries, but I always have problems taking out books, unless they are in research for something from school.

Anyway, I have seen that "14 Video Paintings" thing.

I was pondering the way people occupy their time the other day. Do you think that people would say they were busy all the time if they weren't filling their time with things they enjoyed? I guess, I wish life would stay at this constant rate, and provide more outlets for doing things I enjoy - instead of obligatory things. Huh.

[reallyfled]

In the first half of the 20th century, it was known as leisure time. It is what people referred to whenever their jobs consisted of their passion. But I don't think this is something we can escape - growing up in the 80s and 90s. Even when I am working diligently on a music project, I still think - this is work that is fun. Not, fun.

If you want to change it, I guess you have to make a conscious decision about it.

After the convenience overhaul was introduced to American lives, leisure means sitting on your butt letting your brain rot.
I would say that many people are filling their lives with things they don't enjoy... money. Money is huge. That's why I'm in college. To make money and support myself. Whether that's right or wrong, I think goes from person to person, but the way people compromise because of what they're told the American dream is... I know that is wrong and you can see it in their eyes when you work in offices.

[noright_angles]

Definitely. I hate the idea of the American dream. I mean, honestly...society has built up an ideal which involves years and year of education - unspecialized to you, and the way you learn; finding a companion to become entirely too dependent on (which this involves rules within itself); and producing offspring - not to mention the obligatory career, which hardly ever consists of "doing what one 'wants' to do".

When, all in all, where does the purpose go? What kind of progress are we making for a) ourselves and more importantly b) the fucking world? I guess I took this in a whole new direction than you had planned to go, but I have been thinking about it a lot lately. Whenever I exit this world, I want to know that I leave behind something, which will never expire.

[reallyfled]

That's true.

Watching King of the Hill the other night... and it was about Bill and his family. He never has anyone, and he was trying to find where his family was and throw a family reunion. Only one person showed up, everyone else was dead. This other person had no interest in starting a family (had possible bi-sexual undertones) and Bill, well, if you knew the show...
Anyway, the way they were going to leave a legacy behind with the Daughtry name was first through a poetry magazine... then an issue came about the family barbecue recipe. Point is... I thought those things were much more interesting than saying I left a kid behind. Not that I'm opposed to that, it's just not me.

Otherwise... yeah... compulsory education I haven't studied much, but I've heard about problems, and have my own personal experiences with how it fails.